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AbstractAfter summarizing the vast historical and comparative literature on the role of the intellectual which points out among other things that there is a general antipathy between intellectuals and persons in power, the author constructs a heuristic model which can highlight the complexity of political roles played by intellectuals on the basis of two distinct but related dichotomies (intellect/intelligence ; innovator/integrator). By cross-tabulating these dicotho-mies, he discovers four prototypical roles among which intellectuals are distributed : a) gate keeper, b) moralist, c) protector and d) conservative. In his description of each of these roles, which is based largely upon examples of american intellectuals, the author discusses both the different political behaviorsthat assure a role for "knowledge and culture" and the social conditions which contribute to the development of such behaviors.